Hi,
I am new to Fireworks and also to the Forum. I am trying to
create a text orbiting a circle animation from
http://www.cbtcafe.com/fireworks/3dtext/3dtext.html.
I am able to follow everything correctly except the Page 4 where my
text is not overlapping on the circle. Can anyone please help me
and tell me where I am wrong. I am new to all this animations and
the software so any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

I attached the text and also created the animations. I am
stuck on Page 4 of that link. The stage where it says "Text will
overlap", I am stuck there. My text is not overlapping. So, the
animation is not coming correctly because of that. Please help.
Thank You.

Ah, you're stuck on the masking part on page four, step 7?
This tutorial sorta sucks because they're not explaining anything.
Basically they want you to make a copy of the sphere directly on
top of the existing one. Then you cut the top sphere in half, and
turn that half into a mask.

Open up the help file (F1) and search for "masking images",
then you'll understand the technique a little better and hopefully
the rest of that tutorial will make sense. :-)

Thank you for helping. I am still stuck. I tried
understanding the technique but its still not clear. I am very new
to all this so I am finding it difficult. Is there any better
tutorial which will give the same result as this tutorial?
I tried using the one in Adobe website. I am able to do it
but in one of the stages, it is asking me to use "Object" panel
which I am not able to find in my Fireworks software. Please help
me with this. Thanks a lot.

Divz2 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for helping. I am still stuck. I tried
understanding the technique
> but its still not clear. I am very new to all this so I
am finding it
> difficult. Is there any better tutorial which will give
the same result as this
> tutorial?
> I tried using the one in Adobe website. I am able to do
it but in one of the
> stages, it is asking me to use "Object" panel which I am
not able to find in my
> Fireworks software. Please help me with this. Thanks a
lot.

That tutorial was written for an early version of Fireworks.
Instead of
masking the circle, use the Knife tool to cut it in half
horizontally.
Make sure you have Share This Layer selected, and then bring
the top
half of the circle forward.